British woman with autism ‘forcibly removed’ from cinema for ‘laughing too much’

A British woman with autism was removed from a cinema for allegedly “laughing too much”.

Tamsin Parker, 25, was watching the famous western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly at a cinema in London at the weekend when she was “forcibly removed” from the screening after complaints were made by some other attendees.

The woman’s mother, Lydia, said her daughter, who was celebrating her birthday, was in “floods of tears” when she picked her up from the security office, the BBC reports.

"There's clearly a huge lack of awareness about people with autism," Mrs Parker said.

Her daughter, an animater, had been “so excited” about watching the 1966 film as Tamsin identifies with one of the characters.

A 51-year-old man, who was at the screening with his son, said while Ms Parker laughed loudly it was never “inappropriate”.

Lloyd Shepherd told the BBC that some other attendees were getting “uptight” about the noise and spoke to staff, while one man also shouted abuse at Ms Parker.